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Wind Power Sequence:
"Your power companies like to get things going over wires and pipes so that can put a meter on it. To make money. The sailor learned to go from here to there just by the wind, which is just Sun power disturbing the atmosphere. The Navy Department agrees that there is no power on Earth such as the wind power. In one minute of one hurricane there is more power being released than in the joint atomic stockpiles of the United States and Russia. But this is not something that the company can make money out of.
"Now Mrs. Rockefeller has gotten very interested in my windmills. Windmills went out just as aeronautics began. And I’ve got a very fine young aeronautical engineer working with me, really we’re doing very well with windmills. Mrs. Rockefeller wants to start something in Maine-- going to get the people in Maine-- in the windmill business.
“And I said that what you’ve got to do is get in on a service business-- where you don’t sell windmills. What you want to do is to have a truck-- a platform-- it has the windmill and all the generators and everything and you rent it to people while they’re going to use it. Because the Maine people are going to go to Florida in the winter and they’re not going to be around”
